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Nina ([personal profile] bookbeltof_love) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2020-01-27 09:00 am
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Community Center Class: Tactics Pancake!!! | Monday

Nina's grand, grand plans for today's class had been…

Well.

She was still holding class but she was also pretty sure, at this point, that she had a fever going on in addition to her achy, dragging body, and a headache. All she ought to be doing, really, was sleeping, but then who would hold her class?

Nina had shifted her plans—out of necessity—and while she'd still had to spend time drawing with chalk, she had not moved all the furniture around, instead choosing to work <>with it.

Wrapping herself in a blanket, Nina curled up in a chair at the front of the classroom and, before any of her students arrived, invoked the spells that turned everything from a normal looking sort of room to…

An incredibly sketchy tavern. Complete with a one-eyed bartender who was more than half-drunk himself and tired bar wenches dressed incredibly indecently. Nothing, including the staff and the patrons was all too clean. The cups were almost certainly not safe to drink out of and rats skittered across the mildew-y straw covering the half-rotten floor. The tang of salt air underscored the filth.

She couldn't even, like, take credit for this place though, since it was based off a few taverns she'd been in.

Hidden by her illusions, Nina took a deep breath and steadied herself. She just had to get through class and then, okay, it'd be fine. She'd go to sleep.

"Compatriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, in a ringing voice that she really wasn't feeling today. "Old and new!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last time, like, you searched the prince's quarters and most frequented haunts and discovered a few clues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Even though Lox Bagel was keeping one of them to himself! And technically some of the clues hadn't been discovered but, like, she was in charge of this class and she got to decide how it went so, like, she was declaring they'd gotten enough information to make some choices.

"With Princess Danisha's blessings, you now wait for your ship to Cereelel, a small island nation off the coast of Waffledonia that is known primarily as being a den of iniquity and home to many pirates! Perhaps one of them would know of the prayer the prince sought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or perhaps you're all just wasting your time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Well. Given that she was in charge it was unlikely they were wasting their time. Unlikely, but not impossible.

"Nonetheless, all you can do is wait—and get to know your compatriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After all," she said, lowering her voice, "your lives will depend on each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Plz to be waiting for the OCD is up, up, and away!]
seriesofbaddecisions: (hand on hip)

Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] seriesofbaddecisions 2020-01-27 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hence the lawlessness!" Sabine said, not skipping a beat.
betterthanaplan: (Default)

Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2020-01-27 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)

"Exactly. Waffledonia's been dealing with the same shit from Pancake --" Duke frowned, dropping out of character. "-- Fuck, what was the pancake country called again? Pancake-ia? Pancakeland. Whatever. They've been trying to conquer the waffle land forever. Over . . . like butter or something."

He'd even made this part up. But there were a lot of breakfast puns to keep track of, here.

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Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] seriesofbaddecisions 2020-01-27 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Over access to the Great Butter River, I heard." Maybe? Which sounded gross, for the record.
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Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2020-01-27 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)

But it went great with the syrup ocean Duke was pretty sure he'd invented, so hey!

"That'd be the one. And the cinnamon mines. Waffledonia has a wealth of natural resources, after all."

seriesofbaddecisions: (hearing you out)

Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] seriesofbaddecisions 2020-01-27 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
""And this is why I'm here. To take the Heshbrownan lawlessness and unleash it on those who deserve it, and take back what's ours," Sabine decided. "And save a prince?"
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Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2020-01-27 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)

"Could be a cash reward in that prince saving," Duke said. "Good call."

seriesofbaddecisions: (quietly listening)

Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] seriesofbaddecisions 2020-01-27 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"These are my motivations." She didn't have any two minutes ago! "What brings you on this quest?"

Was it a quest? Probably.
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Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2020-01-27 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)

"Oh, money, definitely." He had just said he'd worked both sides of that conflict in West Croissant, after all. "Any resemblance I may have to the lost Prince Bagellan of Waffledonia is purely coincidental."

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Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] seriesofbaddecisions 2020-01-27 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Coincidence is good. Wouldn't want to have to turn you in for a reward now," she said with an exaggerated wink.

Dammit wait was she a bounty hunter again?
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Re: Wait at the Tavern!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2020-01-27 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)

"Like I haven't tried to do that myself already," Duke said. Because . . . sure, that could be a thing, right? "Besides, I heard he died in the Great Butter Wars five years ago."